Monday 31st December, 2018

Juaso (Ash), Dec. 31, GNA – Mr. Alexander
Frimpong, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Asante-Akim South, has
initiated a campaign aimed at stocking the Juaso Municipal Hospital’s blood
bank to address the perennial difficulty in accessing blood at the main
referral facility in the Municipality.

The move is to ensure constant availability of
blood at hospital where most emergency cases from the sub-districts were
referred.

Series of blood donation exercises are
therefore expected to be held periodically as part of the campaign with the MCE
spearheading the mobilisation drive.

The first of the exercise held at Juaso
received massive patronage as staff of the assembly, opinion leaders and chiefs
took part to motivate the public to embrace the initiative.

The MCE, demonstrating exemplary leadership,
was the first to donate to pave way for others to follow suit.

He told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the
sidelines of the exercise that blood was critical to effective health delivery
especially in emergency situations and since it was not a product that could be
purchased on the market, it was incumbent on every well-meaning Ghanaian to
support such exercises to save lives.

The Juaso Hospital, according to him, must not
be starved of blood as the major health facility in the municipality, adding
that lack of blood at the facility could endanger the lives of the people.

Even more imperative to ensure adequate blood
at the hospital is that fact that it is located on one of the accident-prone
stretches of the Accra-Kumasi Highway, he added.

He therefore appealed to the people in the
municipality eligible to donate blood to support the campaign, saying it could
save the lives of their own relatives.